756 research outputs found
Freedom’s cry: the popular dimension in the Pakistan Movement and Partition experience in North West India
No full textStandard historical accounts of the emergence of Pakistan have been dominated by events and issues at the elite level of politics. This book introduces two new angles to the subject. It lays particular emphasis firstly on the role of popular participation in the freedom struggle and secondly on the human dimension of the Partition experience. In order to open up these fresh perspectives this study utilizes new sources, including the extended use of fictitional representation. In addition to the injection of a human perspective into the historical discourse on Pakistan's emergence, the author provides comprehensive data on refugee resettlement and bibliographical notes.Ian Talbot examines the role of popular participation in the Pakistan Movement and the social and psychological impact of the 1947 experience. While standard historical accounts have been dominated by events and issues at the elite level of politics, the author introduces two more angles to the study of the Freedom Movement: he lays particular emphasis on, firstly, the role of the ordinary citizen, and secondly, the human dimension of the Partition experience. Exploring these fresh perspectives, he includes the extended use of fictional representation and provides comprehensive data on refugee resettlement
Public Reading & Conversation with Jill Talbot
No full textJill Talbot is the author of The Last Year: Essays (Winner of Wandering Aengus Press Editor’s Prize, August 2023), as well as The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir and Loaded: Women and Addiction, a collection of personal essays. Her writing has appeared in literary journals such as AGNI, Brevity, Colorado Review, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Lit Mag, River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction, and The Paris Review Daily and has been recognized seven times in TheBest American Essays annual series. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas
LAI Craft Talk: Literary Arts Institute Writer in Residence, Jill Talbot
No full textJill Talbot is the author of The Last Year: Essays (Winner of Wandering Aengus Press Editor’s Prize, August 2023), as well as The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir and Loaded: Women and Addiction, a collection of personal essays. Her writing has appeared in literary journals such as AGNI, Brevity, Colorado Review, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Lit Mag, River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction, and The Paris Review Daily and has been recognized seven times in TheBest American Essays annual series. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas
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Miss Ella of the Deep South of Texas
No full textHistorical narrative of the life of Ellen Talbot and the region of Texas the author calls the "Deep South of Texas," meaning that area near the Gulf that combines elements of the West with those of the Deep South
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Season of the witch ::enchantment, terror, and deliverance in the City of Love /
No full text"In a kaleidoscopic narrative ... bestselling author David Talbot tells the gripping story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 and 1982--and of the extraordinary men and women who led to the city's ultimate rebirth and triumph."--Page 4 of cover
Sanderson & Tolbert wedding
No full textLeft to right: Bernice Sanderson, Russell Talbot, Memphis Talbot, ? Talbot, Sheldon Talbot, Karen Sanderson, Sandra Sanderson Bishop, Margaret Sanderson Taylor, Pete (nickname) ?, Linda Lovell, Rosemary Sanderson, Virginia Talbot, and Patricia Sanderson Petersen, Delta, Utah, August 24, 195
India and Pakistan
No full textThe rise of ethnic and religious conflicts in the post-Cold War era has reawakened consideration of the future of nationalism and the nation state. The Indian subcontinent with its myriad ethnic, religious and linguistic divides provides a focus for examination of the interplay between nationalism, religion and ethnicity. The region's growing violence and instability is in part a result of this process, sharpened by social inequalities and the struggle to control scarce resources. This book provides a historical understanding of the chequered process of nation-building in the subcontinent. In particular, the author examines the role of "parochial" allegiances and the impact of contemporary processes of economic and cultural globalization on nationalist and localist allegiances. And, in introducing the increasingly important role of overseas South Asian communities in the political mobilization of the homeland, the reader is shown the complexities of South Asian society and the effects of its relationship with the state on the process of nation-building in India and Pakistan
The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
No full textThe Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot project has published online full transcriptions of all the known letters to and from this important 19th century figure. The transcriptions are annotated and searchable in a flexible, freeform manner that has proved intuitive for a wide range of users.
Talbot (1800-1877) is best known for his invention of photography, a pervasive art/science that changed the way that we see and record the world. However, Talbot was an important figure in many spheres. A member of an influential and widely-connected family, he was an MP in the first Reform Parliament, a pioneering mathematician, a serious botanist, an author, the holder of patents on railway propulsion, twice the recipient of Royal Society medals for his work on light and crystallography and a pioneer in the field of Assyriology. His diverse correspondence with more than a thousand figures ranges over all these fields. The first recorded letter is from him as an eight year old and the letters continue uninterrupted until just days before his death. As such, they provide a sweeping panorama of the social, political, technical and scientific changes through a good part of the 19th century.
This project had its roots in Schaaf’s research from two decades ago. From 1999 till September 2003, it was hosted at Glasgow University. Schaaf continued to answer enquiries from his office in Baltimore, Maryland, where he has extensive research resources and files on Talbot and his period. In 2005, a British Academy grant allowed the creation of a remote editor, enabling Schaaf to add newly discovered letters (about fifty to date) and to revise and update the existing transcriptions (about 600 have been updated). Enquiries come daily from all over the world, from academics and interested parties, ranging over subject areas as diverse as Talbot’s interests
Intimacy Unguarded: Chris Kraus
No full textThe Central Saint Martins research project 'Intimacy Unguarded', run by Emma Talbot and Dr Jo Morra, hosted a visit to Central Saint Martins by United States author Chris Kraus. Kraus is a highly respected writer (I Love Dick, Summer of Hate, Aliens and Anorexia etc) and editor of the semi-texte series 'Native Agents'. In this event, Kraus gave a reading from 'I Love Dick' and was then interviewed by Emma Talbot, to a live public audience.
'Intimacy Unguarded' also ran a seminar called 'Write A Letter To Chris Kraus'. Mirroring the format for the celebrated book 'I Love Dick', in which Kraus uses the letter as a way of addressing a particular figure (with whom she is obsessed) whilst simultaneously unpacking her own personal thoughts and research, participants were invited to 'Write a Letter To Chris Kraus'.
Chris Kraus was present at the seminar, where letters were read aloud and Kraus was the first respondent. Those taking part were from Raven Row, CSM BAFA, MAFA and Afterall. An excerpt from Kraus's book and a selection of the letters will be published in the June 2017n issue of Journal of Visual Art Practice, to be guest-edited by Talbot and Morra
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